Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk which provided details of outstanding actions from previous meetings.

The Chairman advised Members that a communication on Member Development had been circulated to the Establishment Committee from the Town Clerk’s Department.

The Director of Human Resources explained to Members that whilst recording devices are not used for Staff Appeals at the Corporation, they had been used in the past. The Director of Human Resources further explained that although the Corporation asked staff not to record formal meetings, it was to be noted that there was an increase in the workplace in general, not just the Corporation, in staff recording other staff in informal conversations as ‘evidence’.  The Corporation discourages this practice but it is difficult to ban it, and Employment Tribunals, are increasingly accepting such ‘evidence’. 

RESOLVED – That the Committee note the report.